Director Kathryn Bigelow’s new thriller, “A House of Dynamite,” is not simply a gripping film — it is a wake-up call. The movie dramatizes, in real time, the terrifying 30-minute window between the launch of a nuclear missile bound for the U.S. and its impact. In doing so, the film exposes a brutal truth that too many decision-makers and policy experts in Washington refuse to admit: Long-range missile defense will not protect us. Our only real path to escape nuclear catastrophe lies in reducing global arsenals.If all our agencies perform as spectacularly as they did leading up to and on 9/11, we won't stand a chance*.
*: I am not knocking the first responders or the passengers of Flight 93 ... but all the three-letter agencies who ignored intelligence, and let bin Laden metastasize.